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In the month of October, 1696, the quietude of the household at the Jemseg was disturbed by the appearance of the Massachusetts military expedition under Hawthorne and Church. "We heard of them," says Gyles, "some time before they came up the river by the guard that Governor Villebon had ordered at the river's mouth.
Item, that the said abbot is malicious and very wrathful, not regarding what he saith or doeth in his fury or anger. Item, that one Richard Gyles bought of the abbot and convent of Wigmore a corradye, and a chamber for him and his wife for term of their lives; and when the said Richard Gyles was aged and was very weak, he disposed his goods, and made executors to execute his will.
"My master asked me," continues Gyles, "whether I chose to be sold aboard the man-of-war or to the inhabitants?
"Why, Sir," replied he, "it's nothing. We were talking about a ribbon, Sir." "What ribbon?" "A ribbon we saw at church, Sir." "Well, whose was it?" asked Mr. Gray. "I believe it was Miss Hope Wayne's." "You believe, Gyles? Why don't you speak out?" "Well, Sir, the fact is that Abel Newt says she had a purple ribbon on her bonnet " "She hadn't," said Gabriel, breaking in, impetuously.
Wilt thou teach me?" The master's voice rose angrily. "Teach me, who learned descant and counterpoint in the Gallo-Belgic schools, sir; the best in all the world! Thou, who knowest not a staccato from a stick of liquorice!" Carew shrugged his shoulders impatiently. "Come, Master Gyles, this is fool play. I told thee that the boy could sing, and thou hast not yet heard him try.
But with all her amiability and gentleness she possessed other and stronger qualities, and it was her woman's wit and readiness of resource that saved her husband's fortunes in a grave emergency. The story shall be told in Gyles' own words. Louis d'Amours married Marguerite Guyon in 1686, about the time he settled on the St. John river. They had three children.
"I likewise know, sir, what is what. In plain words, Master Gaston Carew, ye have grossly misrepresented this boy to me, to the waste of much good time. Why, sir, he does not dance a step, and cannot act at all." "Soft, Master Gyles be not so fast!" said Carew, haughtily, drawing himself up, with his hand on his poniard; "dost mean to tell me that I have lied to thee?
In the evening of the day on which the Doctor improved the drowning, and exhorted his hearers to be brave, Mr. Gray asked Gabriel Bennet, "Where was the text?" "I don't know, Sir," replied Gabriel. As he spoke there was the sound of warm discussion on the other side of the dining-room, in which the boys sat during the evening. "What is it, Gyles?" asked Mr. Gray.
Its distance from the old fort is about half a mile, and the situation and surroundings correspond so exactly with Gyles' description that there is not the slightest doubt as to its identity. The water that flows from it never fails and is very clear and cool. See page 13.
And when the said abbot now being perceived that the said Richard Gyles was rich, and had not bequested so much of his goods to him as he would have had, the said abbot then came to the chamber of the said Richard Gyles, and put out thence all his friends and kinsfolk that kept him in his sickness; and then the said abbot set his brother and other of his servants to keep the sick man; and the night next coming after the said Richard Gyles's coffer was broken, and thence taken all that was in the same, to the value of forty marks; and long after the said abbot confessed, before the executors of the said Richard Gyles, that it was his deed.
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